Milk-can.



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIcE.

HANS MIKOREY, OF SCHONEBERG, NEAR BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO THE FIRM OF W. GRAAFF `& COMPANY, GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESOHRNKTER HAFTUNG, OF BERLIN, GERMANY.

MILK-CAN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 25, 1905.

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HANS MIKOREY, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at N o. 13 Wartburgstrasse, Schneberg, near Berlin, Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in MilleOans, of which the y following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to obviate the inconveniences in supplying milk to the household which consist in the fact that sometimes nobody is at home to receive the milk when delivered or that the vessels iilled with milk can be easily misappropriated when accessible to unauthorized persons. These drawbacks are obviated by furnishing the milkman with a can which enables a vessel in the house of the customer to be filled with milk.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through'a door and the two vessels connected to each other. Fig. 2 is a like view showing the milkmans vessel turned upside down, so as to discharge the milk into the house vessel. Fig. 3 is a plan of Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a plan of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is an elevation of the house vesse Fig. 6 is a like view of the milkmans vessel. Figs. 7 and 8 are enlarged views showing the closing device in different positions.

A vessel a is arranged on the inside of the house-door on a bracket ffl, and a small tube d, closable by a flap-valve e, is provided on the removable upper part b of the vessel, said tube being visible on the outside of the door. Asecond vessel e, with removable upper art b', is also provided with a small tube f, w 'ch fits into the tube d.

The vessel a is iilled in the following Inanner: The milkman inserts the tube f of his can e into the tube d. A pin g 'on the tube f presses the flap h away from the opening of the tube d.

In order that the milk may iiow out of the vessel e into the vessel a, it is necessary to reverse the former, as shown in Fig. 2. After use the flap h returns to its closed position, Fig. 7, by the weight of the part m.

The hole in the door is closed by a slide 7c when the can is removed.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A device for receiving milk comprising a l vessel a adapted to be placed inside the door of the house and provided on its up er part with a small tube d adaptedto be c osed in the interior of the vessel by a gravity-valve c, a second vessel e adapted to be placed outside the door and being closed at its upper part, a tube f connected to said vessel e and bein adapted to extend from the outside of the oor through a hole in the latter into the tube d, said tube f carrying a pin gwhich opens the valve c, while the vessel e for the purpose of being emptied is adapted to be turned on the longitudinal aXis of the tubes uniting the vessels, substantially as described and shownin the drawings.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HANS MIKOREY.

Witnesses:

E. A. ANDERSON, J. L. STEPHENS. 

